Berkshire on Stage

DORSET, VT – Dorset Theatre Festival is proud to reveal the first two powerhouse casts for its upcoming 2026 season, featuring returning Dorset favorites and acclaimed stage veterans. Highlights: DECEIVED: a gripping psychological thriller starring Lucas Dixon, Caitlin Clouthier, Kelly McAndrew, and Ellen Grace Diehl. THE UNDERSTUDY: Theresa Rebeck’s sharp-witted backstage comedy featuring Jeffrey Bean, David Mason, and Elizabeth Heflin. “We are…

by Barbara Waldinger On April 9 th of this year a press release was sent out by the Dorset Theatre Festival announcing that Kristine Nielsen, a two-time Tony nominee (for VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE and for GARY: A SEQUEL TO TITUS ANDRONICUS) would be joining the company…

(Dorset, VT – April 9, 2024) Dorset Theatre Festival has announced full casting for The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh and Sidekicked by Kim Powers in their upcoming 2024 Main Stage season, scheduled from June 21 through September 7, 2024 at the Dorset Playhouse (104 Cheney Rd, Dorset, VT 05251).  “We have more exciting…

by Barbara Waldinger “Set during Eugene O’Neill’s classic Long Day’s Journey Into Night, failure, denial and passion roil as two Irish servants and an American chauffeur pass the day in the kitchen of the Tyrone family’s residence in 1912.” (Publicity blurb: Dorset Theatre Festival’s production of Thirst by Ronán Noone). …

(Dorset, VT – August 17, 2022) Dorset Theatre Festival’s 45th Season of professional summer theatre will conclude with the World Premiere of Thirst, written by Irish-American playwright Ronán Noone, directed by the Festival’s resident playwright, Theresa Rebeck.  Set during Eugene O’Neill’s classic Long Day’s Journey Into Night, failure, denial, and…

by Gail M. Burns We are so blessed with the close and productive relationship between playwright Theresa Rebeck and the Dorset Theatre Festival, where she has developed at Dorset more than half a dozen plays, most have which have gone on to productions at other major regional theatres and in…

by Gail M. Burns, June, 2005. The other day, while working on updating this Web site, I came upon a button that asked me to “click here for a chance to win free tickets” to a performance of The Underpants at New Century Theatre. I figured that the worst that could happen…